Headrest for automobiles



A. A. McCANN. HEADREST FOR AUTGMOBILES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 4, 1920.

1,353,644, Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

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AARON A. MGCANN', OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA.

HEADREST FOR AUTOMOBILES.

To all 1071 0722 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that 1, Alison A. MGCANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Riverside, in the county of Riverside, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Headrests for Automobiles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is an attachment for the rear seat of a touringcar, intended when in use for the comfort of the passenger and adapted when not in use to be folded into small compass.

A. feature of the invention is its means for attachment to the stud possessed by such machines for supporting the top.

Another feature of the invention is its adjustability whereby it may be adapted to different machines and set in diiferent positions.

Details are set forth below and shown in the drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the rear potion of the body of a touring car with this attachment in position thereon.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment removed from the machine, with the parts at one end folded down onto the pad.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation showing the means for adjusting the pads, and illustrating the addition of the supplemental head rest.

Fig. a is a detail of said supplemental head rest.

In the drawings a portion of the body of the automobile is shown, and the letter B represents the back and A the arm of one of the rear seats, while S is the stud or post on which the top props are supported, and it is immaterial to my invention whether the top is raised or lowered. The attache ment comprises two like members whereof each preferably consists of a rear board 1 upholstered or padded at 2 on its front face, and a plurality of cleats or brackets 3 secured upon said board in longitudinal alinement and each having a set screw 4; and these two members are connected by a pair of rods or bars 5 which'pass through the cleats and are adjustably held therein by the set screws, so that the members can be spaced more or less at their inner ends and the aggregate length of the head rest proper Specification of Letters'latent.

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4 at right angles to Patented Nov. 9, 1926. 1920. Serial No. 363,224.

adapted to the size of the seat back B. At the outer end of each member two bracket arms 6 are secured to the board and carried around its end to points forward of the upholstering, and at 7 there are pivoted to these arms upper and lower rods 8 and 9 which preferably converge from their pivoted ends to their other ends.

Mounted on the whose two members are adapted to be drawn tightly around said stud by a thumb screw 11, and pivoted to said clip is an arm which first rises therefrom as at 12 and then extends rearward along a substantially horizontal line as at 13, a considerable distance above the arm A. This supporting arm or rod 12, 13 is adj ustably connected with the two arms or rods 8, 9 at the end of the head rest proper, by means of a fastening device which comprises a body 14 made up of blocks spaced for the respective rods, and a bolt 17 passing through all the blocks on a line the length of said rods so that they can be adjusted into binding contact with the rods after the latter have been adjusted as desired. I would make this fastening device as small and inconspicuous as possible but I consider it highly desirable as one element of the attachment because it permits the latter to be adjusted to adapt it to different makesof machines wherein the stud may be at various distances from the seat back l3 and at various heights with relation to it or to the arm A. Finally, the outer end of each pad may have a ring or eye QO'into which can be fastened a strap leading downward and attached to some part of the body of the car, its purpose being to additionally support the head rest in its proper position. j

VVhen' not in use the attachment is folded as seen at one side of Fig. 2, and it can be stored in small space. It is even possible to disconnect the two pads and superpose them and their rods to store the entire attachment in smaller space. To put it into use, the cliplO is applied to the stud S at each side, the several set screws loosened, the arms or rods adjusted through the ins teners so that the pads may rest on the upper edge of the seat back and stand at the desired angle to a horizontal, and the bolt then tightened up; and in addition straps may connect the eyes with fixed points on the body. The passengers on the back seat may now lean their heads back against post or stud S is a clip 10 V 'thefact that the rear portion 13 of the supporting arm and the lowermost rod 9 stand well above the arm A so that the passenger may put his elbow on the latter. The materials of which this device is composed and the finish thereof are matters which may be left to the manufacturer.

.In'Fig. 4. the drawings is shown a supplemental head rest, also illustrated'in Fig.

applied, and its positionindicated in Fig. 2 in dotted lines. By preference this consists of a band 200i? fabric having heins 21 along its parallel edges, and in each hem is one arm of an oval metal 10013322. Th'e other arms ofthese loops are jexposed and are adapted to he slipped overthe'he'ads o f *thesetscrews i, as seen in Fig. 3, at a'ftime prising a head rest when the band is drawn rather taut. Many auton'iobiies'have a rear seat which will accommodate three passengers, and this attachme'nt is useful'for the third passenger who otherwise mi l'ht find that his headxcame b opposite thespace between the two p'ads'2. In such event "the supplemental head rest could be quickly applied as will be clear. W hen not in use it'could be rolled up and "stored way in small compass.

WVhat is claimed as new is: v

1. An attachment for automobiles comhinged to both" ends adaptedro be mounted on the studs which support the top, a-ndlmeansifor adjustably connecting the last-named rods "with the others;

'2. *An attachment hinged toboth ends thereof, other, rods adapted to be mountedon' the studsiwhich support theitop andjextending th'enceup- I above the seat-arms,fand fasteningdevices at the rear ends joffsaid ward and rearward rodsand with which the forwardfends' fof the otherro'ds are adapted 'to be adjustably engaged. V v

3. An attachment for prisin a headrest pad structure,fbracket arms secured to both fen'ds thereof, rods hinged'to said'arm's and adapted to fold over the 'facei'of the pad or to be'turned so rods" hinged to the outer supporting rods adapted for attachment to pad structure, rods thereof, other rods for automobiles coin- "prising a head rest pad structure, rods automobiles comas to project forward therefrom, rods adapted to be mounted on the studs which support the top, and adjustable fastening means between these rods and the others.

4. The herein described head rest for automobiles, the same comprising two pads disposed end to end, means for holding them in alinement and adjusting their dis tance'apa'rt, two'bracket arms at the outer end of each pad carried around beyond its forward-face, two rods hinged to said arms andconverging thence forward, and means for adjustably mounting the forward ends of these rods on the body of an automobile.

5. The hereinedescribed head rest comprising two pads having solid backs and up h'olstered fronts, cleats on said backs provided with set screws, bars connecting the pads and extending throu h the cleats beneath their set screws, rods hinged to the outer ends of he pads and adapted to fold over theirupholstered "faces or to be turned outward "at right angles thereto, and means for adjustably mountingthe' forward ends of these rods on the body of an automobile.

6. In a head restattachment for automobiles,"the combination with two pads, and means for holding them in alinement with their inner ends spaced from each other to the desired extent; of eyes on the outer ends of said pads for .the attachment of straps, 1 ends of said pads,

the automobile'body, and means'for adjustably fastening each supporting rod to the rods at the corresponding end of the structure.

7 In a headrest attachment for automobiles, the combination with two pads, cleats ontheir rear faces, bars connecting-the pads andextending'throughithe cleats, set screws inthe latter for holding the pads adjusted, andmeans "for supporting them on edge upon the back' of the automobile seat; of a supplemental head rest consisting of a flexihis band of a' width to extend across the space between thepads, and loops carried by parallel edges of "the band and adapted t i e engaged over certain ofhsaid set screws.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature inthe presence of two witnesses.

. RON-A.-MGCANN.

Witnesses:

DANIEL HANDCOCK, JAMns "M. FEReUsoN. 

